Indian Journal of Ophthalmology (Jan 2012)
Vision-related research priorities and how to finance them
- Catherine A McCarty
Affiliations
- Catherine A McCarty
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.4103/0301-4738.100550
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 60,
no. 5
pp. 460 – 463
Abstract
A number of organizations have employed a consultative process with the vision community to engage relevant parties in identifying needs and opportunities for vision research. The National Eye Institute in the US and the European Commission are currently undergoing consultation to develop priorities for vision research. Once these priorities have been established, the challenge will be to identify the resources to advance these research agendas. Success rates for Federal funding for research have decreased recently in the USA, UK, and Australia. Researchers should consider various potential funding sources for their research. The universal consideration for funding is that the reason for funding should align with the mission of the funding organization. In addition to Federal research organizations that fund investigator-initiated research, other potential funding sources include nongovernmental organizations, for-profit companies, individual philanthropy, and service organizations. In addition to aligning with organizational funding priorities, researchers need to consider turn-around time and total funds available including whether an organization will cover institutional indirect costs. Websites are useful tools to find information about organizations that fund research, including grant deadlines. Collaboration is encouraged.
Keywords
- Diabetes-related blindness
- diabetic retinopathy
- key informant
- rapid assessment of avoidable blindness
- retinopathy of prematurity
- tele-ophthalmology
- Blindness
- disability
- equity
- health economics
- health policy
- health and development
- social exclusion
- Community eye health
- prevention of blindness
- ophthalmogical residency
- VISION 2020
- Visual impairment
- blindness
- inequality
- social class
- income
- educational status
- gender and ethnic groups
- Advocacy
- effective service delivery
- enabling environment
- stakeholders
- resources
- Avoidable blindness and visual impairment
- impact
- scaling up
- VISION 2020
- Global blindness
- prevalence
- visual impairment
- visual acuity
- Comprehensive eye care
- eye care model
- pyramidal model
- Comprehensive eye care
- optometrist
- optometry regulation
- eye health
- India
- Economics
- blindness
- visual impairment
- market
- government
- cost
- Millennium development goals
- eye health
- Vision 2020 the Right to Sight
- Blindness
- eye care services
- planning rapid assessment methods
- visual impairment
- Avoidable blindness
- cataract surgical rate
- corneal blindness
- eye care services
- Compliance
- diabetic retinopathy
- services
- Human resource development
- service delivery
- social entrepreneurship
- uncorrected refractive error
- Blindness
- cataract extraction
- cataract
- coverage
- data aggregation
- population
- prevalence
- visual impairment
- Case detection
- comprehensive eye examination
- developing countries
- glaucoma
- integrated approach
- training requirements
- Child health policy
- childhood blindness
- social determinants of eye health
- Access
- Asia-pacific
- coverage
- funding
- low vision
- policy
- Funding
- vision research priorities
- peer review
- research